LOL freda.

Re gender bashing. There have been an awful lot of jokes that might be considered degrading to women. How about 'why do women have smaller feet? So they can get closer to the sink'. That's one of the milder ones that I have heard. I've generally thought that those were pretty funny, so long as they are being told by men who don't regard them as being reality. But then, I'm pretty secure about being female and I, too, am in the top 2% of the population IQ wise.

From personal experience I have found that the folks who find gender based jokes offensive have issues with gender as a whole. As I say, this is based purely on my own personal experience and I have no data to back it up.

I am puzzle by Able's contention that it is a Matriarchy that will be sending troops to Afghanistan. I thought that, right now, all the leaders involved in that abomination were male. Or are they being egged on by their wives to send boys out to die? As a female I am sickened on a daily basis by the maiming and killing of one human being by another in these conflicts. In my view the leaders who want to get into these wars should be out there in the front line.